Monday, March 7, 2011

Spilling Over during a board meeting

Leslie here. It might seem odd to some, but I find I can listen more attentively if my hands are doing something. I was recently in Dallas attending a board meeting. I took my moleskin sketchbook and some markers into the meeting, and here is what I "spilled onto the page" while there:

zentangles, anyone?

a zentangle, of sorts, using this washi tape as inspiration for the spaces

Looks like it was a long meeting but you didn't care! Maybe you should take some extra paper to pass around to the people who see what you are doing, lol, as they might want to doodle like this too after seeing yours.

Thanks for the comments! I wish I had been aware of the advantages of "doodling" during some of my "drier" college courses. I think I would have retained information more accurately!Try taking some watercolor postcards into a meeting and passing them around (as an experiment) with markers or pens and see what people come up with!Once, at an earlier board meeting, we got a few postcards going and began passing them around to the others, who added on to them. We stamped them and dropped them into the mail afterward. So much fun!

Love the doodles. I took the spilling over challenge, you can view it herehttp://www.inspirationforcreativity.com/This is my first time taking the sketchbook challenge, please let me know if I posted it correctly. Thanks

Love it. I had a professor who said that doodling activated a certain part of the brain that helped you remember what you were hearing. My daughter (who has Asperger's) has a history teacher allows her to draw during her class because she is the only one who gets A's on the tests. Even during games, she will be drawing away and her turn comes up and she knows the answers and the answers for everyone else as well. I teach my students to zentangle in the middle of the year.